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The Story Behind the Story

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These books came to me in dreams...

Here is my journey into The Stone Guardians Universe.

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The Story Behind the Story

These characters and their story first came to me in my dreams. I received a recurring vision of them meeting for the first time in a rugged wilderness, at night, the scene lit only by the light of a small campfire.

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Torrin Character illustration by Kindrie Grove .jpg

This dream played out multiple times over several successive nights, until decided to sit down and write it out. At the time, I thought that would be the end of it.

Instead, a doorway to this fantasy world, which had only been cracked open, was blown wide, and the first novel began to stream through with a shocking power and intensity.

I read the book as I wrote it – each day an exciting adventure, as the words flew onto the page, describing an epic quest, a message that could save a kingdom, and the characters who faced mortal danger to deliver it.

I felt like a lens, a conduit, that allowed The Stone Guardians to pour through, so they could inhabit our world.

These characters were like real people for me, I fell in love with them all, and was compelled to honour their story, not only in a written novel series, but in drawings, paintings and sculpture.

Torrin And his black Warhorse oil painting by Kindrie Grove.jpg

There was no choice to be made. I was driven to share this tale and these characters as a part of my life’s purpose, and connecting with them, journeying into their world, was like discovering a long-lost part of my own story.